Muslim Brotherhood’s Ennui Corner

Accuracy in Academia ^ | February 22, 2011 | Malcolm A. Kline

[Academiadotorg]

If you want to find out about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on American college campuses, let alone in the Middle East, you are looking at one of the few sites which attempt to provide it.

Few media outlets covered the panel on Shariah Law at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference. Even fewer got it right.

Sarah Posner barely mentioned it in her story on C-PAC that appeared in The Nation and got picked up by CBS and other news outlets. The Center for Security Policy’s Frank “Gaffney did make an appearance in the audience at a Saturday afternoon panel called ‘The Sharia [sic] Challenge in the West,’where moderator Cliff May of the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies promoted a book published by Gaffney’s CSP,” Posner wrote. She went on to describe the panel as “the only ‘official’ CPAC event with an explicitly anti-Islam agenda” in the sum total of her references to it.

Contra Posner, even Campus Progress, which hardly gave the panel the sympathetic treatment, noted that the speakers on the topic made a distinction between the radical Islamic elite and moderate Muslims.

[spokeshave]

radical Islamic elite is to moderate Muslims

as Heroin is to marijuana.

[FrankR]

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

They’ve told us what they want to do. We did not react to protect ourselves.